MOR Special Issue Knowledge Search, Spillovers, and Creation in Emerging Markets
这篇特刊引言探讨了新兴市场中知识搜索、溢出与创造的多向流动，对研究跨国企业知识转移和本土企业创新的学者有参考价值。
Recent management research has paid increasing attention to knowledge search and spillovers. Knowledge search and spillovers enable firms to go beyond their internal knowledge stocks in order to search and use knowledge from other firms in order to create new knowledge. While knowledge search, spillovers, and creation may occur in many contexts, a better understanding of this process in emerging markets has become critical and urgent for management scholars. Emerging market countries refer to diose that have low per capita income but with a rapid pace of economic development, and government policies favoring economic liberalization. They include countries in Latin America, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Africa, and also transition economies such as China, Central and Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union. Relative to firms in developed markets, emerging market firms typically lag behind in technology and management skills. Thus, great opportunities exist for emerging market firms to learn and benefit from developed country firms. Indeed, policy makers in many emerging markets have taken great efforts toward attracting foreign firms in order to help dieir domestic firms learn from the foreign firms. However, the rapid growth and development of emerging economies, while creating great growth opportunities for developed country firms, also force them to learn and adapt to the new competitive landscape. Particularly, over the past decade, many emerging market firms have become important players in global markets. In many aspects, these past students have become teachers to developed country firms. Therefore, knowledge search, spillovers, and creation in emerging markets are no longer one-way traffic from foreign firms to domestic firms, but become possible in every direction: from foreign firms to domestic firms, from domestic firms to foreign firms, from foreign firms to foreign firms, and from domestic firms to domestic firms. Thus, it becomes theoretically and practically important to examine how knowledge search, spillovers, and creation occur in emerging markets. This special issue provides an opportunity to advance our understanding of this important issue in the management, international business, and economics literatures.